Obama’s Campaign Manager Has Some Advice for Biden on America’s Youth: “Don’t Assume They’re Gonna Vote”

Jan 6 Speech • SCOTUS Takes Colorado Case • Neri Oxman’s Apology [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( Obama’s Campaign Manager Has Some Advice for Biden on America’s Youth: “Don’t Assume They’re Gonna Vote” Good morning from the Hive newsroom! “Not voting is a vote for Donald Trump,” Obama 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina [warns]( in an interview with Rachel Janfaza on how Joe Biden can appeal to young voters on issues ranging from abortion to the economy to Israel—and what role a superstar surrogate like Taylor Swift could play in November’s election. During his first major campaign speech of 2024, Biden “denounced” Trump “in the starkest terms yet,” Jack McCordick [writes](, portraying the likely Republican nominee “as a fundamental threat to the ‘sacred cause’ of democracy.” Meanwhile, Bess Levin [finds]( Neri Oxman, the wife of billionaire Harvard critic Bill Ackman, apologizing “for multiple instances of plagiarism in her 2010 dissertation.” Thanks for reading. [Obama’s Campaign Manager Has Some Advice for Biden on America’s Youth: “Don’t Assume They’re Gonna Vote”]( By [Rachel Janfaza]( [Jim Messina thinks the president should draw on cultural powerhouses like Taylor Swift—and “lead with values” on Israel and the economy to get young people to the polls.]( [Read more button](   [President Biden, in First Major Campaign Speech of 2024, Slams Trump as Threat to “Sacred Cause” of Democracy]( By [Jack McCordick]( [The speech came on the eve of the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.]( [Read more button](   [Speaker Mike Johnson Still Won’t Confirm That Biden Won in 2020]( By [Jack McCordick]( [After Trump’s loss, the Louisiana representative collected congressional signatures to support a baseless lawsuit over election irregularities.]( [Read more button](   [Supreme Court Agrees to Rule on Trump’s Colorado Primary Eligibility]( By [Jack McCordick]( [The former president warned there will be “big trouble” if the Supreme Court does not rule in his favor.]( [Read more button](   [Wife of Billionaire Who Pushed for Harvard President’s Ouster Apologizes for Plagiarism in Dissertation]( By [Bess Levin]( [Neri Oxman wrote on X, “I regret and apologize for these errors.”]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast